10. The Hanging Cage
The pictured victim is one of the lucky ones because most occupants were caged completely naked to expose them to either extreme cold or hot weather conditions. And... most caged prisoners were usually placed in there only after other means of extreme physical torture were administered. But wait -- there's more! The victims were left in the cage until they died from either the elements or thirst, which could take weeks.
Hey , that is Captain Kidd!
http://www.thurrock.gov.uk/heritage/He was charged with a murder of a sailor, and with piracy. The trial evidence was from two sailors who served under him and turned King's evidence. He protested he was "the most innocent person of them all", he was pronounced guilty of both offences.
His hanging was carried out at Execution Dock, Wapping. On the first attempt the rope broke, but was replaced and after successfully being hung until dead his body was covered in tar, gibbeted, and taken to Tilbury Ness. He hung in the metal gibbet, his body was left for the duration of three high tides which submerged the body, and was apparently thought to be a deterrent against piracy to any other sailors who witnessed the scene as they travelled up or down the River Thames.
There is some confusion over where 'Tilbury ness' is, later Ordnance Survey maps show it to be the point of the bend in the Thames where Tilbury Docks is now situated, in the Chadwell-St-Mary parish. However an earlier map, relating to the 1588 Armada threat, showing the lay out of defences labels 'Tilburyness' at a point that we now call Coalhouse Point, East Tilbury.
